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“Angels are the Thoughts of God”…
Dear Reader: Saturday evening I was reading a couple of chapters from Marianne Williamson’s best-seller: Everyday Grace. Our Sunday school class has been reading it this year and we are closing in on...
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Larger-then-Life Reflections
Dear Reader: As sometimes happens…I started this post with one idea mulling around in my mind…but the “idea” decided to take a detour and go in a different direction. Don’t you just love it when that...
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Day by Day…
Dear Reader: I decided to keep the angel planter on the porch after the Christmas holidays came to a close last year. It just made me feel good seeing the ivy wrapped around the angel holding her...
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The Bridge of Melodies and Memories
Dear Reader: The miraculous human body God created for each of us never ceases to amaze and astound me. Never was this more apparent than in time spent with mother at the Presbyterian Village. Those...
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Grief is the Price of Love
Dear Reader: Today’s blog post will be brief…though the grief that we all feel as low country residents, who adore our “Holy City,” will not be. This particular grief will linger forever in our...
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The Blessing Tree
Dear Reader: I had a letter from Honey yesterday (with some pamphlets included) from a wonderful “treasure” she and Tarshie (Honey’s daughter) discovered in Clayton, Georgia. The family was in Clayton...
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Life is a Special Occasion…
Dear Reader: I was clearing off my dining room table a couple of days ago and spotted this Hallmark bag (I had been given after purchasing some cards earlier in the week) … Before I tossed it…I read...
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A “Lantana” Friendship
Dear Reader: Starting with Libby’s birthday earlier this month… the Ya’s decided that we would take time to tell each other what we really feel about our special friendship (that have persevered over...
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We Are One in the Spirit
Dear Reader: I have to confess that sometimes I just don’t want to sing certain hymns in church…maybe they’re new with a difficult melody, or slow and drawn out or have 6 or more stanzas. I am...
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Just Sharing Some Rambling Thoughts…
Dear Reader: I have lived long enough to realize that after every major storm there comes a time of stillness and intense beauty. I have lived through several hurricanes, including Hugo….and I , now,...
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“There is a Little Chapel in the Woods”
Dear Reader: Yesterday I was scrolling through some documents…still trying to attempt to clean some out when I came across the title of today’s blog and had forgotten all about this little poem I...
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It’s Time to Own Our Own Story…Now!
Dear Reader: Brene Brown, Ph.D. (The Gifts of Imperfection) has observed and identified the one single thing that separates the men and women who feel a deep sense of love and belonging from those who...
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“We Gather Together”
Dear Reader: The old hymn, “We Gather Together” is most often associated with Thanksgiving or a way to sing “grace” before a meal with a large gathering or group. Yesterday, as I watched the...
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A Memory of Birth and Morning Glories
Dear Reader: I have always been drawn to morning glories and I find myself walking over to the side fence to check on the ones planted beside it each morning. They are really growing and...
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Life is a Beautiful Struggle
Dear Reader: The older I get the more I realize how true this statement is: “Life is a beautiful struggle.” The harder we have to fight to maintain life the more beautiful it becomes. It starts to...
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Weighing in with God’s Guidance
Dear Reader: Isn’t this quilt gorgeous? Many talented women in our church worked long and hard to create symbols of our church as a memento to our hard-working, talented Associate Pastor, who is...
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“Oopsy Daisy”…”Oh Me!”
Dear Reader: The past couple of days, though they turned out fine, have definitely been a combination of “Oopsy Daisy” and “Oh me!” It started Monday night…well, actually about 2. a.m Tuesday morning....
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The Plurality of Me
Dear Reader: Have you ever had a sneaking suspicion that there is more than one of you inside yourself? I was reading an article about the different “me’s” that exist throughout the days of our lives...
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An Opportunity to Embrace Excess Baggage
Dear Reader: This photo shows Eva Cate’s baggage…packed and ready to go. Since I will be seeing her on the Fourth…tomorrow…it wasn’t as sad as it might have been. But isn’t it strange how in only...
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Spirals of Life…Spirals of Freedom
Dear Reader: Happy Fourth of July! It is hard to believe that the summer has flown so fast and here it is…our nation’s Independence Day! If any of our Founding Fathers were still alive today…they...
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